I WAS horrified at the deferential planning meeting held at the Crediton council chamber on Tuesday, April 5.

Councillors and developers (Gleeson’s) talked amiably about imposing 330 “boxes”, as the developer said, on Sandford, that is more than 1,000 people with children - a small town.

No facilities - shops, village hall, leisure area, no adequate roads - access to Crediton - for 300 cars to work in Exeter - through a single track lane with no pavements - no infrastructure - roads, pavements, lighting, bus access, sewage, run off drainage - nothing.

No parking for visitors, 20 minutes to walk to town and 30 minutes to the railway station. Not everyone drives a car.

The Link Road stops when two lorries meet. Add to that traffic, the Red Hill Cross site of 135 houses who will mostly drive to Exeter.

All this development should be next to Tesco where all facilities are nearby.

The final main dodge by the developers was to increase the house number from 200 to 330. Not a word from the planning department.

It was an insult to Sandford that its councillors were not invited to sit with the planning department and developers, but were patronisingly talked over.

If Mid Devon District councillors and Crediton town councillors don’t wake up we shall have a brand new isolated slum of disaffected people.

S J Haddleton

Upton Hellions